where he was awarded a Music Merit and Jeanette
MacDonald Operetta Scholarship along with a Teaching
Assistantship in Vocal Arts. He received a B.M. degree
from UC Irvine with full voice scholarship in 2003.
Mr. Silva has sung the title role in Werther with the Los
Angeles Orchestra, Des Grieux in Auber's Manon Lescaut
with Lyric Opera of Los Angeles, Alfredo in La Traviata,
Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, Tamino in Die Zauberfloe
and Le Chevalier in the television video Dialogues of the
Carmelites with Santa Monica Opera. In 2006 he was
invited to return to UC Irvine Opera as an alumnus guest
artist to perform Rodolfo in La Boheme and Rinuccio in
Gianni Schicchi whereby the Irvine World News proclaim
Silva's voice is striking and immediate? He created the
role of Robert in Jason Barabba's World Premiere Opera
sentity Crisis and performed Ferrando in Cos?fan tutte
with Repertory Opera Company.
In concert Mr. Silva was the tenor soloist in Mozart's
Grand Mass in C minor with Pacific Palisades Symphony,
Handel's Messiah and Mozart's Requiem with Westchester
Lutheran Cathedral Orchestra, Obadiah in Mendelssohn's
Elijah and a soloist in Ramirez's Missa Criolla with
Westwood Presbyterian Chamber Orchestra. He performs
in the recently televised Tribute to Walter Ducloux and
Operatic Tribute to Martial Singher in which the Santa
Monica Corsair states, Silva's rich tenor sound was
sometimes a gentle stream that comforted, and other
times a raging torrent? His European debut was in From
Vienna to Broadway with the International Vocal Institute,
where he performed 10 concerts in Dubrovnic, Hvar, and
Korcula, Croatia.